PAPErs

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Expander Random Walks: A Fourier-Analytic Approach

Gil Cohen, Noam Peri, Amnon Ta-Shma

STOC 2021

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Seed Protecting Extractors

Gil Cohen, Dean Doron, Shahar Samocha

Manuscript

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Candidate Tree Codes via Pascal Determinant Cubes

Inbar Ben Yaacov, Gil Cohen, Anand Kumar Narayanan

Manuscript

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Rate Amplification and Query-Efficient Distance Amplification for Locally Decodable Codes

Gil Cohen, Tal Yankovitz

Manuscript

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Palette-Alternating Tree Codes

Gil Cohen, Shahar Samocha

CCC 2020

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Two-Source Condensers with Low Error and Low Entropy Gap via Entropy-Resilient Functions

Avraham Ben-Aroya, Gil Cohen, Dean Doron, Amnon Ta-Shma

RANDOM 2019

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Explicit Binary Tree Codes with Polylogarithmic Size Alphabet

Gil Cohen, Bernhard Haeupler, Leonard Schulman

STOC 2018

Video talk at BIRS CMO

Leonard's talk at TCS+

Gil Kalai's post (+video of Leonard at IIAS)

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Pseudo-Random Pseudo-Distributions with Near-Optimal Error for Read-Once Branching Programs

Mark Braverman, Gil Cohen, Sumegha Garg

STOC 2018

Invited to the SICOMP Special Issue for STOC 2018 (accepted)

Video talk at the Hebrew University (via Zoom)

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Towards Optimal Two-Source Extractors and Ramsey Graphs

Gil Cohen

STOC 2017

poster from STOC

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Making the Most of Advice: New Correlation Breakers and Their Applications 

Gil Cohen

FOCS 2016

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Extractors for Near Logarithmic Min-Entropy

Gil Cohen, Leonard Schulman

FOCS 2016

Invited to Theory of Computing (ToC) 2016 (accepted)

Invited to the SICOMP Special Issue for FOCS 2016 (regretfully declined)

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Non-Malleable Extractors with Logarithmic Seeds

Gil Cohen

Manuscript

This paper has been subsumed by "Making the Most of Advice..." (see above) though this earlier manuscript is simpler and yields optimal non-malleable extractors (up to constants) for constant error.

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Non-Malleable Extractors - New Tools and Improved Constructions

Gil Cohen

CCC 2016

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Two-Source Dispersers for Polylogarithmic Entropy and Improved Ramsey Graphs

Gil Cohen

STOC 2016

Invited to the SICOMP Special Issue for STOC 2016 (accepted)

Part 1

Part 2

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The Complexity of DNF of Parities

Gil Cohen, Igor Shinkar

ITCS 2016

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Local Correlation Breakers and Applications to Three-Source Extractors and Mergers

Gil Cohen

FOCS 2015; SICOMP 2016

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Two Structural Results for Low Degree Polynomials and Applications

Gil Cohen, Avishay Tal

RANDOM 2015

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Zero-Fixing Extractors for Sub-Logarithmic Entropy

Gil Cohen, Igor Shinkar

ICALP 2015

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Bi-Lipschitz Bijection between the Boolean Cube and the Hamming Ball

Itai Benjamini, Gil Cohen, Igor Shinkar

FOCS 2014; Israel Journal of Mathematics 2016

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Two Sides of the Coin Problem

Gil Cohen, Anat Ganor, Ran Raz

RANDOM 2014

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Pseudorandom Generators for Low Degree Polynomials from Algebraic Geometry Codes

Gil Cohen, Amnon Ta-Shma

Manuscript

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Efficient Multiparty Protocols via Log-Depth Threshold Formulae

Gil Cohen, Ivan Bjerre Damgard, Yuval Ishai, Jonas Kolker, Peter Bro Miltersen, Ran Raz, Ron Rothblum

CRYPT0 2013

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On Rigid Matrices and U-Polynomials

Noga Alon, Gil Cohen

CCC 2013; Computational Complexity 2015

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Gradual Small-Bias Sample Spaces

Avraham Ben-Aroya, Gil Cohen

Manuscript

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Non-Malleable Extractors with Short Seeds and Applications to Privacy Amplification

Gil Cohen, Ran Raz, Gil Segev

CCC 2012; SICOMP 2014

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On the Degree of Univariate Polynomials Over the Integers

Gil Cohen, Amir Shpilka, Avishay Tal

ITCS 2012; COMBINATORICA 2016